Quotes by Augustus Hare

Augustus Hare

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

Holding On

Horse

Public Opinion

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

Littles

Too Much

Vices

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

Example

Excellent

People

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

Boys

Mother

Tired

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

Evil

Loss

Prejudice

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

Baby

Inspiring

Mothers Day

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Believe

Flower

Sweet

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

Children

Powerful

Son

Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein nearer to God, only that they are created and finite in all respects, free from decay, free from the power of death, whereas God is infinite and uncreated.

Angel

Men

Spiritual

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

Circumstances

Men

Religion

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All Things

Ambitious

Angel

Atheism

Baby

Beautiful

Believe

Black

Book

Boys

Children

Christianity

Circumstances

Clouds

Confidence In Others

Country

Earth

Evil

Example

Excellent

Flower

Good Christian

Good Day

Heart

Heaven

Holding On

Horse

Humble

Humility

Hypocrite

Inspirational

Inspiring

Life

Littles

Loss

Men

Mind

Mother

Mothers Day

Neighbor

No Confidence

Paganism

People

Positive

Powerful

Prejudice

Principles

Public Opinion

Reading

Religion

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Quotes by Augustus Hare

Augustus Hare

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

Man is a mixed being, made up of a spiritual soul and of a fleshly body; the angels are pure spirits, herein nearer to God, only that they are created and finite in all respects, free from decay, free from the power of death, whereas God is infinite and uncreated.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

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